The installation is very easy. Follow the step-by-step process:

A) Upload files to your server

• Download ScratchCard.zip to your local machine.
• Unzip the file
• Create a folder within public_html on your server.
• Upload all the folders and files within ScratchCard to this new folder 
• Change the permission of the following to '777'
• Folder 'content/card_add/win_img'
• Folder 'content/card_add/lose_img'
• Folder 'content/js_card/scratch'
• Folder 'content/js_card/backgroud'
• Folder 'content/output'
• Folder 'content/user_siup'
• Folder 'content/card_add/win_img'
• File 'config.php'


• Note: Scratch Card Generator has been encoded with the ionCube PHP Encoder and requires the free ionCube PHP Loader to be installed.

B) Create a database and user in MySQL Database

• Open your cPanel (Control Panel) to access MySQL Database
• Create a database
• Create a User by providing username and password
• Link the database with the user

C) Install the script

• Now open following link in your browser:
• http://yourdomainname.com/foldername/install/
  where:
  yourdomainname.com : your domain name
  foldername : the name of the newly created folder, where you would have uploaded all the files and folder.
   
• Provide all the inputs as specified below:
• Database Server : <your database server> e.g. localhost
• Username : <username created in MySQL Database>
• Password : <Password for the above mentioned username>
• Database : <database created in MySQL Database>
• Tables Prefix: Prefix to be used for script tables in the database.
• Admin Username: Username to login for administration panel of the system.
• Admin Password: Password to login for administration panel of the system.
• Admin Email: Email to be used to send emails.
• Site Title: To be used in emails' subject.

• After you finish the installation process, remove install folder from the server, to avoid the problems that may be caused by tampering with the script.